Knockdown package.



e. s. BOWMAN.

KNOCKDOWN PACKAGE. APPLlCATlON FILED DEC. 9, 1913- Patented June 29, 1915,

2 SHEETS-SHEF.T l.

G. s. BOWMAN;

KNOCKDOWN PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 9. 1913.

Patented June 29, 1915 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

INVENTOR ATTORNE'Y panying drawings,

TE srnrns Parana enrich.

GECRGE S. BOWMAN, 9F LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA.

nnocxnown PACKAGE.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1915.

Application filed December 9, 1918. Serial No. 805,545.

To all whom it may concern: Be it. knownthat I, GEORGE S. BOWMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of Lebanon, in the State of tain new and useful Improvements. in Knockdown Packages, of which the followinglis a specification. y invention relates to improvements in lmockdown packages, and more particularly to improvements in the package for which Letters Patent of the United States were issued to me on November 11, 1913, No.

. 1,078,245, the object of my present invention being to simplify, cheapen and improve the 'packageset forth in this patent.

illustrated in the accomwhich form part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate similar-parts throughout the several views, and'in which My invention is Figure 1, is a plan of partof-the body of the package,

I the sides of which are shown bent over .to tongues carried by the head, and which is out and struck out to form keepers for a locking pin: Fig. 2, a side elevation of the completed package one end of which is furnished with a head and the other end of which is open: Fig. 3, a top View of Fig. 2: Fig. 4, a section, of Fig. 3 on lineA-A: Fig. 5, a plan of blank from which the heads may be formed from blank shown in Fig. 5: Fig. 7, a plan of inside of blank for forming the body: Fig. 8, a top view of Fig. 7.

form cylindrical bodies of any diameter.

The bodies are formed by bending the sheet 1 into cylindrical form, its ends overlapping one another as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

Near its ends each end of the sheet 1 is cut at 34 and between these cuts struck inwardly to form pockets 5-6 which, when the body is bent tocylindrical form, rest one 1 within the other and are adapted to receive a pin or key 7 which securely but detachably,

.1ocks the two ends ofthe body together.

Heads 20 are provided for closing the opposite ends of the body 1. Each of these ennsylvania, have invented cer form channels to receive the struck: Fig. 6, a plan of head heads is composed of a closing disk and a wide or deep band 21 connected therewith preferably in the form of a flange thereof. This wide or deep band or flange is adapted to surround the narrow out-turned flange 2- of the body 1 and to extend beyond the edge thereof. The wide band or flange is provided with one or more tongues 9 cut-from the body of the flange or band 21, preferably on a curved line as shown at 8 in Fig. 2.

This. tongue is attached at its base to said wide band or flange at a point beyond the edge of the body flange 2 at a point between the edges of the body flange 2 and the flange or band 21. This'tongue projects toward the head and has a free end which extends beyond the edge of the body flange 2 into the channel formed thereby. The heads are rotatable on the body to cause the tongues to engage or disengage said channel through the lateral openings 15 in the body flange 2. hen the heads are placed over the ends of the body and rotarily turned the tongues 9 successively enter the open end of the channel 2. If the head he turned so as to make a complete revolution the first tongue to enter the channel will engage the outer end 10 of the body 1 and the turning of the head in this direction will be stopped. The heads may be locked. in position by simply bending the lower edge of the channel 2 outwardly as shown in Fig. 5 so as to engage the sides of the cuts forming the tongues.

The heads may be formed in any convenient manner. In Figs. struck from a square piece of material is shown. The corners of this square piece are first folded over, as shown in Fig. 5, to form an octagonal blank and this is then struck out, as shown in Fig. 6, toform a substantially round head with a flange which'is afterward cut to form the tongues i for engaging-the channels on the body. The

necessary folding of the octagonal blank to form the flange of the head greatly strengthens this structure and fits it for any rough usage without danger of breaking. it.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Lettcrs Patent A receptacle comprising a cylindrical body provided. with inn outward narrow flange at .oneend thereof, said flange having a lateral opening, a head for closing an end of said body provided with a band of greater forming a channel between it and said body depth than said flange and ada ted to sm:- formed thereby, and said head being r0taro und and extend beyond said Ody flange, table on said body to cause said tongne to 10 saldhead band having a tongue whmh 1s engageor disengage sai( 1 channel through connected therewith at a point between the said lateral 'openin m-said body flange.

6 edges of said head band and said body GE bRGE S. BOWMAN flange and which has a free end projecting Witnesses: toward said head to a point beyond the edge MARY H. BOWMAN,

of said body flange and into the channel MIRIAMBOWM N VAN SYGKEL. 

